The United States’s people-to-people ties in Africa make it impervious to Chinese competition, said U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in an interview with CNN.
It’s interesting to compare it with remarks by her colleague Jose W. Fernandez, the Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, at the recent Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. While Fernandez didn’t name-check China directly, competition with Beijing in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo featured prominently.
